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This is the first attempt at a complete boot loader for Linux on Sparc.
Because of the lack of space on the bootblock, we have to do it in two
steps, the first step is a very simple loader based on Peter Zaitcev's
silo (we will call this the first stage loader) which should fit in 512B
and its sole purpose is to load a more complete bootstrap loader, herein
refered to as the second stage boot load
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/silo/docs/README.tilo

T I L O
(Trivial Image LOader)
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Jan Vondrak (C) 1998
Ben Collins (C) 2001
This is a tool for building a simple TFTP boot loader which embodies
several kernel images for different Sun architectures and a ramdisk root
image. To minimize memory usage, the images are gzipped. After starting
the boot loader, the architecture is detected, the appropriate kernel
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/silo/first-isofs/README.SILO_ISOFS

HOW TO MAKE A SPARC BOOTABLE CDROM (NEW)
SILO may be used to create a bootable CDROM for sparc. At the moment it will
support booting on sun4c, sun4m, sun4d and sun4u machines only.
INTRO
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A CDROM is booted on Sparc by issuing following commands in the PROM
(depending on PROM version - v0 is PROM with major versions 0, found
on sun4c only, v2 is PROM with major versions 2 or 3, found on
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